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I have had my different husbands, my families. I am fond of them all and I visit them all. But deep inside me there is the feeling that I belong to show business.

Author: Ingrid Bergman
Topics: Business, Businessman, Famous

You have to embrace the unknown in this business.

Author: Al Pacino
Topics: Business, Famous, Positive

There’s no blueprint for success in this business.

Author: Al Pacino
Topics: Business, Famous

It’s not personal, it’s strictly business.

Author: Al Pacino
Topics: Business, Famous

Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There’s nothing wrong with fear.

Author: Norman Schwarzkopf
Topics: Business, Famous, Life

Business is not about making money, but about solving problems.

Author: Jack Ma
Topics: Business, Famous

My vision is to build an e-commerce ecosystem that allows consumers and businesses to do all aspects of business online.

Author: Jack Ma
Topics: Business, Famous, Visions

Alibaba is about helping small businesses. Our goal is not about making money, it’s about making a difference.

Author: Jack Ma
Topics: Business, Famous, Positive

I think people forget that I started out playing music before I was in the business of music.

Author: Willie Nelson
Topics: Business, Famous, Positive

It is not the business of the artist to record his own personal thoughts. The business of the artist is to record life as it is.

Author: Henry Miller
Topics: Business, Famous, Positive

Logan Cale: If I just had my ass handed to me by a size three, I’d be inclined to mind my own business.

Author: James Cameron
Topics: Business, Experiences, Famous

Prune – prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.

Author: Donald Rumsfeld
Topics: Activities, Business, Famous

Success tends to go not to the person who is error-free, because he also tends to be risk-averse. Rather it goes to the person who recognizes that life is pretty much a percentage business. It isn’t making mistakes that’s critical; it’s correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Author: Donald Rumsfeld
Topics: Business, Famous, Successful

The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.

Author: David Hare
Topics: Business, Famous, Life

You have to be prepared to take a lot of chances in this business.

Author: Teri Garr
Topics: Business, Famous

Business is a combination of war and sport.

Author: B. C. Forbes
Topics: Business, Famous, Positive

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Author: B. C. Forbes
Topics: Business, Businessman, Famous

A business like an automobile, has to be driven, in order to get results.

Author: B. C. Forbes
Topics: Business, Famous

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

Author: B. C. Forbes
Topics: Business, Famous, Life

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

Author: B. C. Forbes
Topics: Business, Famous

I love the fact that women are able to take risks in this business now. It’s about time!

Author: Kate Winslet
Topics: Business, Famous, Life, Positive

I want to be known for being hardworking and a businesswoman.

Author: Kim Kardashian
Topics: Business, Famous, Hardwork

I’ve always been a businesswoman.

Author: Kim Kardashian
Topics: Business, Famous

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

Author: Rihanna
Topics: Act, Business, Famous

In business, real jobs profitably produce goods and services that people value more highly than their alternatives. Subsidizing inefficient jobs is costly, wastes resources, and weakens our economy.

Author: Charles Koch
Topics: Business, Famous, Life

Far too many businesses have been all too eager to lobby for maintaining and increasing subsidies and mandates paid by taxpayers and consumers.

Author: Charles Koch
Topics: Business, Businessman, Famous

The role of business is to provide products and services that make people’s lives better – while using fewer resources – and to act lawfully and with integrity.

Author: Charles Koch
Topics: Business, Famous, Feelings

The goal of a business is to create value for others. Profit is just a measure of how well we are doing that.

Author: Charles Koch
Topics: Business, Creative, Famous

I have a business that, funnily enough, has an Indian link – we grow Indian sandalwood in plantations and export the timber and oil overseas.

Author: Adam Gilchrist
Topics: Business, Businessman, Famous

There’s always a lot of work to do in this business.

Author: Axl Rose
Topics: Business, Famous, Positive

In this business, my business, I get to meet all kinds of incredible people, fascinating people, glamorous people and sexy people and highly intellectual people. And you meet them and you go ‘interesting, interesting, interesting’. They’re interesting, but not very many people stop you in your tracks.

Author: Madonna
Topics: Business, Businessman, Famous, People

America is not a country, it’s a business.

Author: Brad Pitt
Topics: Business, Famous

Your opinion of me is none of my business.

Author: Billie Eilish
Topics: Business, Famous, Positive

Most of the great businesses of our time have experimented. Like Google.

Author: Evan Williams
Topics: Business, Businessman, Famous

In this business, you either adapt or die.

Author: The Undertaker
Topics: Business, Famous

Generally, health is just so heavily regulated. It’s just a painful business to be in. It’s just not necessarily how I want to spend my time.

Author: Sergey Brin
Topics: Business, Businessman, Famous

Ethics and integrity are crucial in business.

Author: Ratan Tata
Topics: Business, Famous

IT and the entire communications business clearly have the greatest potential for growth. But if you’re talking about sheer size, the steel and auto industries will remain at the top.

Author: Ratan Tata
Topics: Business, Communication, Famous

The ultimate test of your business model is whether it will survive when you are no longer around.

Author: Ratan Tata
Topics: Ability, Business, Famous

Business need to go beyond the interest of their companies to the communities they serve.

Author: Ratan Tata
Topics: Business, Community, Famous

A good business model is one that can adapt to changing circumstances.

Author: Carlos Slim
Topics: Achievement, Business, Famous

If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.

Author: Carlos Slim
Topics: Business, Famous, Positive

All businesses make mistakes. The trick is to avoid large ones.

Author: Carlos Slim
Topics: Business, Famous

Building a business and becoming a billionaire is it’s not championship. It’s the competence; the competence in your sector with other companies not looking to have some kind of records in this issue.

Author: Carlos Slim
Topics: Business, Businessman, Famous

I don’t have business with any politicians.

Author: Carlos Slim
Topics: Business, Famous, Political

Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.

Author: Carlos Slim
Topics: Business, Famous, Profitable

In business, timing is everything.

Author: Mukesh Ambani
Topics: Business, Famous, Time

Business is not just about profits; it’s about building relationships.

Author: Mukesh Ambani
Topics: Business, Famous, Relationships

Our established businesses of hydrocarbons, energy, and petrochemicals pretty much run on their own, with their own proven leaders. This has helped me focus almost exclusively on two things: Firstly, new businesses. And secondly, institutionalising what I call the Reliance Management System.

Author: Mukesh Ambani
Topics: Business, Businessman, Famous

At Reliance, we have always believed in investing in the businesses of the future and in investing in talent.

Author: Mukesh Ambani
Topics: Believes, Business, Famous

We all get into business, and we take a risk in terms of putting capital.

Author: Mukesh Ambani
Topics: Business, Famous, Risks

Profit or loss is not guaranteed. That depends on the consumer and depends on the product. That’s a risk that business people take.

Author: Mukesh Ambani
Topics: Business, Famous, profit and loss

Digital life and digital services are a multi-wave business.

Author: Mukesh Ambani
Topics: Business, Famous

I was very focussed on building various competencies in Reliance and we were not ready to do two things at the same time. It was a big risk for us to get into IT, especially because it was hugely effort-intensive. In my language, I said we have too much soap on our body and we need to take a bath in the chemicals business.

Author: Mukesh Ambani
Topics: Business, Famous, Inspirational

Our goal is very simply to become the desktop for e-businesses.

Author: Larry Ellison
Topics: Business, Famous, Goals

If your business is static, you’re likely to have issues.

Author: Larry Page
Topics: Business, Famous

If we are not trusted, we have no business.

Author: Larry Page
Topics: Business, Famous, Trust

Real estate is a relationship business.

Author: Donald John Trump
Topics: Ability, Business, Famous

The methods by which the “Empire of Business” maintains its control over journalism are four: First, ownership of the papers; second, ownership of the owners; third, advertising subsidies; and fourth, direct bribery. By these methods there exists in America a control of news and of current comment more absolute than any monopoly in any other industry.

Author: Upton Sinclair
Topics: Business, Journalism

Wall Street had been doing business with pieces of paper, and now someone asked for a dollar, and it was discovered that the dollar had been mislaid.

Author: Upton Sinclair
Topics: Business, Famous, Positive

If you can’t get emotional about what you believe in your heart, you’re in the wrong business.

Author: Vince Lombardi
Topics: Business, Emotional, Heart

We’re in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.

Author: O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
Topics: Business, Entertainment, Entertainment business, Famous, Meaningful

You saw the exodus of many people on the business council, who resigned, who said those are not my personal values, those are not our corporate values, and those – we don’t believe – are the values of our country.

Author: J. C. Watts
Topics: Business, Country, Famous, People, Personal Values

Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money

Author: Thomas Fuller
Topics: Business, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Money

I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you’re a Democrat. Sometimes that’s good, obviously, and sometimes that’s obviously bad. But in the news business, there’s no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news.

Author: J. C. Watts
Topics: Business, Famous, Good, News, Politics

For me, it’s about camaraderie. My whole life is like, if something’s going on, nothing ever preceded fun. I always put my friends and the fun and the business ahead of everything.

Author: Ric Flair
Topics: Always, Business, Everything, Friends, Nothing

Nobody has wrestled everybody in the business like I have, especially not Bret Hart.

Author: Ric Flair
Topics: Business, Everybody, Nobody

I can take more punishment than anyone in the business.

Author: Ric Flair
Topics: Business, Punishment

I don’t think there’s anything positive in the WCW brand at all. It was dead when they brought it. They were going to bury us when they did business.

Author: Ric Flair
Topics: Brought, Business, Dead, Positive

I was always a fan but me and Kevin Pattero, he was a friend of mine who trained for the Olympic games in 1972… he and I became very close friends and roommates and I kind of rode his coattails into the business.

Author: Ric Flair
Topics: Always, Business, Friend

Sometimes you got to put somebody in their place, let them know that you mean business and you’re a grown ass man.

Author: J. B. Smoove
Topics: Business, Famous, Mean, Men, Sometimes

I want to be clear : Many local jurisdictions, businesses and organizations have their own mask requirements and other mitigations that must be respected, throughout this pandemic, we’ve deployed the tools available to us as needed. Our approach has saved lives and kept our economy open and growing.

Author: J. B. Pritzker
Topics: Business, Clear, Economy, Famous, Growing, Lives, Local, Organizations, Pandemic, Proactive Approach, Requirement, Saved, Tools

Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn’t performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.

Author: J. B. Pritzker
Topics: Business, Changes, Company, Drive, Famous, Improve, Market, Owners, Performing

None of our family businesses were focused on technology. It was ’93 when I came out of law school, and the Internet was taking hold. So I started New World Ventures.

Author: J. B. Pritzker
Topics: Business, Family, Famous, Focused, Internet, Law, New world venture, Technology

I’m in the business of providing people with secondary satisfactions. It wouldn’t have done me much good if they had all written their own plays, would it?

Author: J. B. Priestley
Topics: Business, Famous, People, Play, Providing, Satisfaction, Secondary

There can be no doubt that smoking nowadays is largely a miserable automatic business. People use tobacco without ever taking an intelligent interest in it. They do not experiment, compare, fit the tobacco to the occasion. A man should always be pleasantly conscious of the fact that he is smoking.

Author: J. B. Priestley
Topics: Business, Famous, Intelligent, Interest, Miserable, Occasion, People, Tobacco

Everybody at Axa has understood that digital is there, that digital changes our business, and also that digital can create an opportunity

Author: Thomas Buberl
Topics: Business, Changes, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Opportunity, Understood

Economy: cutting down other people’s wages.

Author: J. B. Morton
Topics: Business, Economy, Famous, People, Wages

The business of everybody is the business of nobody

Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
Topics: Business, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful

The business of the dramatist is to keep himself out of sight, and to let nothing appear but his characters. As soon as he attracts notice to his personal feelings, the illusion is broken.

Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
Topics: Broken, Business, Character, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful

Everybody’s business is nobody’s business

Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
Topics: Business, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful

If I’m watching my son play soccer, that’s what I’m doing. If I’m going to a school concert, that’s what I’m doing. I turn the phone off. I actively tune into whatever I’m doing. I walk every evening with one of my sons and for that half an hour, 45 minutes, that’s what I’m doing.

Author: Gail Kelly
Topics: Business, Famous, Soccer, Women

You should choose organisations that are going to be flexible and supportive and recognise people are going through different stages in their careers and actually need different sorts of support.

Author: Gail Kelly
Topics: Business, Career, Entrepreneur, Famous, Organizations, Supportive, Women

It’s called show business for a reason.

Author: Keanu Reeves
Topics: Business, Famous, Reason

Then the business game is to make profits out of others, and to prevent others from making profits out of you.

Author: Jack London
Topics: Business, Making, Prevent, Profits

When they want to do a thing, in business of course, they must wait till there arises in their brains, somehow, a religious, or ethical, or scientific, or philosophic, concept that the thing is right. And then they go ahead and do it, unwitting that one of the weaknesses of the human mind is that the wish is parent to the thought.

Author: Jack London
Topics: Business, Concept, Human, Scientific, Weaknesses

I’m all in favor of banks that play their part in community endeavors, private individuals looking for loans, people who want to start up a little business, and that’s what banks are for.

Author: Ian Anderson
Topics: Business, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People, Play, Positive, Start

A business man who was also a biologist and a sociologist would know, approximately, the right thing to do for humanity. But, outside the realm of business, these men are stupid. They know only business. They do not know mankind nor society, and yet they set themselves up as arbiters of the fates of the hungry millions and all the other millions thrown in. History, some day, will have an excruciating laugh at their expense.” I was not surprised when I had my.

Author: Jack London
Topics: Business, History, Hungry, Society, Stupid

An annuity is a very serious business.

Author: Jane Austen
Topics: Business, Famous, Meaningful

I was not made for the desk and counting-house, for petty business squabbling, and legal jangling.

Author: Jack London
Topics: Business, Legal

You know, I really miss sex scandals. They’re generally colorful. They almost never mean anything over the long run. And while they’re going on, the people who actually keep the government running are let alone to go about their business. Good old sex scandals.

Author: Gail Collins
Topics: Business, Famous, Government, Mean, Missing, Running, Sex scandals

I started missing acting when I was in school, and I realized after being in the business after however many years that I was really interested in film.

Author: Gaby Hoffmann
Topics: Business, Famous, Film, Interested, Missing, Realized

I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.

Author: Gaby Hoffmann
Topics: Business, College, Famous, Important, Thinking

Bad taste is vulgar. The world as a whole is f——g ugly. And the Internet too, but I’m not in the construction business.

Author: Kanye West
Topics: Business, Famous, Internet, Ugly, Vulgar

When I think about being out of the business, it scares me.

Author: Kane
Topics: Business, Famous, Scare, Thinking

People who like to fume about the manner in which Disney changed beloved classics are often ignorant of history, not to mention the realities of show business.

Author: Kage Baker
Topics: Business, Disney, Famous, Ignorant, Manner, People, Reality

Today I can announce a raft of reforms that we estimate could save over 2.5 million police hours every year. That’s the equivalent of more than 1,200 police officer posts. These reforms are a watershed moment in policing. They show that we really mean business in busting bureaucracy

Author: Theresa May
Topics: Business, Equivalent, Estimate, Famous, Meaningful, Moment, Police, Reforms, Watershed

Whether people choose to have same sex relationships or relationships outside the marriage – whatever happens between two consenting adults should be purely their business, not the state’s or the society’s.

Author: Kabir Bedi
Topics: Adults, Business, Choose, Famous, Marriage, People, Private affairs, Relationship, Sex

I need to travel, of course, with my laptop, so I can do my business on the road.

Author: Theophilus London
Topics: Business, Famous, Laptop, Meaningful, Roads

No matter what you go through with the business side or the Hollywood side at the end of it all, when you are there on the set, it is your thing. So it is your own private world and that’s great. That’s where you have that bubble to create something in.

Author: Tim Burton
Topics: Business, Famous, Feelings, Great, Hollywood, Life, Matter, Meaningful, Private, Throughly

My objective has been to empower jointness, to push individuals to consider affiliations as opposed to working as solo business visionaries.

Author: A. Bartlett Giamatti
Topics: Business, Businessman, Consider, Consideration, Empowering Message, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Individual, Individual achievements, Individual Choices, Inspirational, Joint, Joint efforts, Life, Meaningful, Object, Objective sources

Sometimes it is in the long-run interest of the business sector to restrict the freedom of individual firms so that they do not destroy the common pool of resources that all of them need, such as natural resources or the labour force.

Author: Ha-Joon Chang
Topics: Business, Development, Famous, Freedom, Labor force, Natural resources, Sustainable

In England a king hath little more to do than to make war and give away places; which in plain terms, is to impoverish the nation and set it together by the ears. A pretty business indeed for a man to be allowed eight hundred thousand sterling a year for, and worshipped into the bargain! Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived

Author: Thomas Paine
Topics: Business, England, Famous, God, Honest, Impoverish, King, Nation, Places, Plain, Pretty, Ruffians, Sterling, Worth

The widely accepted assertion that, only if you let markets be will everyone be paid correctly and thus fairly, according to his worth, is a myth. Only when we part with this myth and grasp the political nature of the market and the collective nature of individual productivity will we be able to build a more just society in which historical legacies and collective actions, and not just individual talents and efforts, are properly taken into account in deciding how to reward people.

Author: Ha-Joon Chang
Topics: Advice, Business, Famous, Social justice, Wages

Between the Great Depression and the 1970s, private business was viewed with suspicion even in most capitalist economies. Businesses were, so the story goes, seen as anti-social agents whose profit-seeking needed to be restrained for other, supposedly loftier, goals, such as justice, social harmony, protection of the weak and even national glory.

Author: Ha-Joon Chang
Topics: Business, Famous, Goal, Justice, National glory, Protection, Social harmony, Stories

Even when he played, he made a business of it.

Author: H. W. Brands
Topics: Business, Famous, Fun, Habits, Leisure, Training

We must stop thinking primarily in terms of “money” and “business”.

Author: H. P. Lovecraft
Topics: Business, Famous, Money, Thinking

I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.

Author: H. P. Lovecraft
Topics: Business, Dreams, Famous, Interest, Never, Thoughts

The artist is not a reporter, but a Great Teacher. It is not his business to depict the world as it is, but as it ought to be.

Author: H. L. Mencken
Topics: Business, Famous, World

[A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.

Author: A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Topics: Business, Businessman, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Little hard, Little Things, Littler, Meaningful, Trouble, Troublemaker

The purpose of an army must surely be to put itself out of business

Author: A. A. Gill
Topics: Business, Famous, Inspirational, Itself, Life, Meaningful, Purpose, Purposeful, Sure, Surer

All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you’re Woolworth’s

Author: Jeff Bezos
Topics: Business, Famous, Forever, Meaningful

One of the first things to learn if you want to be a contemplative is to mind your own business. Nothing is more suspicious, in a man who seems holy, than an impatient desire to reform other menfir

Author: Thomas Merton
Topics: Business, Desire, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, First, Holy, Impatient, Learn, Life, Meaningful, Mind, Reform, Suspicious, Things

I often think we do not take this business of photography in a sufficiently serious spirit. Issuing a photograph is like marriage: you can only undo the mischief with infinite woe .

Author: H. G. Wells
Topics: Business, Famous, Infinite, Issues, Marriage, Mischief, Photograph, Photography

Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world.

Author: H. G. Wells
Topics: Business, Famous, Happy, Imaginary, Make, World

Advertising is legitimised lying.

Author: H. G. Wells
Topics: Business, Famous, Lying, Marketing, Sale

Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time I get a blurb from a bookseller, I try to write a thank you note.

Author: Gabrielle Zevin
Topics: Business, Famous, Mean, Thankful, Time

Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody’s business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy

Author: Thomas Merton
Topics: Business, Compassion, Fact, Famous, Feelings, Humanity, Inquire, Itself, Job, Kindness, Life, Love, Meaningful, Neighbors, Nobody's, Others, Positive, Stopping, Unconditional

When I went to City of Bath College, I studied the music business

Author: Gabrielle Aplin
Topics: Business, College, Famous, Music, Studied

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations

Author: Thomas Jefferson
Topics: Business, Capitalism, Economic, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Meaningful, Money, Principles, Value, Wealth

Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Author: Thomas A. Edison
Topics: Brave, Business, Courageous, Depression, Faith, Famous, Feelings, Meaningful, Positive, Progress, Prosperous, Seen, Strength, Stronger

Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ’em, ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Author: Theodore Roosevelt
Topics: Business, Busy, Humanize life, Humankind, Humble, Learn, Learning, Sudden, Suffer

Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.

Author: Gabriel Byrne
Topics: Business, England, Famous, Global, Inspirational, Issues, Politics

I’m not a very gregarious person. I can’t bear attention being called to me in a public place, which is ridiculous in a business that pays you to be noticed.

Author: Gabriel Byrne
Topics: Business, Famous, Person, Public

One of my personal plights in this business is about playing ‘The Sassy Black Girl.’

Author: Gabourey Sidibe
Topics: Business, Character, Famous, Personal plights, Playing, Sassy black girl

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Topics: Business, Devotion, Famous, Neglect, Perpetual, Sustained

Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.

Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Topics: Business, Continue, Famous, Good, Succeed

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

Author: Robert Frost
Topics: Business, Market, Modern, Money

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

 

Author: Ernest Hemingway
Topics: Business, Leading, Leads, Learn, Learning, Things, Think

The PC is successful because we’re all benefiting from the competition with each other. If Twitter comes along, our games benefit. If Nvidia makes better graphics technology, all the games are going to shine. If we come out with a better game, people are going to buy more PCs.

Author: Gabe Newell
Topics: Business, Competition, Consumers, Famous, Mutual Benefits, PC, PC industry, Positive aspects, Successful

I consider Apple to be very closed. Let’s say you have a book business, and you are charging 5 to 7 percent gross margins; you can’t exist in an Apple world because they want 30 percent, and they don’t care that you only have 7 percent to play with

Author: Gabe Newell
Topics: Business, Considering, Express, Famous, Impact on Margins, Perspective

We can all agree that we need to be helping small businesses. All of us can agree that the cost of higher education is too high, and college debt is too big of a burden for young people.

Author: Ilhan Omar
Topics: Business, College, Famous, Meaningful

I could’ve always worked shows, clubs, Las Vegas and Atlantic City, but I was successful in business ventures, and things weren’t happening in show business, so I said, ‘Let me see what I can do.

Author: Gabe Kaplan
Topics: Business, Famous, Happening, Successful, Things

In show business, you had levels. I was at the top of the TV end of it

Author: Gabe Kaplan
Topics: Business, Famous, Television, Top

Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each other’s business.

Author: Robert Frost
Topics: Business, Considering, Freud, Fundamental, Motivation

Music is life, and life is not a business.

Author: Iggy Pop
Topics: Business, Famous, Meaningful, Music

When you start out in the wrestling business, you make a lot of mistakes, tripping over your own feet and looking like a fool.

Author: Hulk Hogan
Topics: Business, Famous, Looking, Meaningful, Mistake, Start

The best wrestlers, whether its a Hulk Hogan or a Rey Mysterio, are the ones who have psychology and can understand this business.

Author: Hulk Hogan
Topics: Business, Famous, Meaningful, Understand

The enigma of cinema is gone because of the focus on business. As soon as you attach numbers to a film, you limit it. Films are meant to be an escape from reality.

Author: Shah Rukh Khan
Topics: Business, Famous, Meaningful

Many who burnt heretics in the ordinary way of their business were otherwise excellent people.

Author: G. M. Trevelyan
Topics: Business, Excellent, Famous, Heretics, Inspirational, Ordinary, People

When I got back here in 1997, I was looking for more room, and I found an archive of old Macs and other stuff. I said, ‘Get it away!’ and I shipped all that shit off to Stanford. If you look backward in this business, you’ll be crushed. You have to look forward.

Author: Steven Paul Jobs
Topics: Business, Famous, Meaningful

A desire not to butt into other people’s business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.

Author: Robert A. Heinlein
Topics: Business, Desire, Famous, Human, People’s, Wisdom

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

Author: Elbert Hubbard
Topics: Business, Businessman, Economic, Effective, Effective communication, Science, Things

Business, to be successful, must be based on science, for demand and supply are matters of mathematics, not guesswork.

Author: Elbert Hubbard
Topics: Business, Businessman, Busy, Guessing, Mathematical, Mathematical logic, Science, Science Fiction, Scientific, Succeed, Success, Successful journey, Supply, Support, Work

As a career, the business of an orthodox preacher is about as successful as that of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell.

Author: Elbert Hubbard
Topics: Business, Businessman, Busy, Hard, Hard conditions, Hard man, Hard Part, Hard Time, Hell, Success, Successful, Successful journey, Sudden, Suffer

Los Angles is not my favorite city. Well, I shouldn’t say that… I love to visit it, on a temporary basis. It’s just such a company town! You can’t go anywhere and not run into someone who wants to be in the business.

Author: Rita Moreno
Topics: Business, Company, Famous, Favorite, Someone, Visitors

Almost everything worthwhile carries with it some sort of risk, whether it’s starting a new business, entering into a serious relationship, or jumping out of an airplane.

Author: Brian Tracy
Topics: Business, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Jumping, Love, Love interest, Love Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Relationship, Relationships, Risk and Freedom, Risks, Serious

If you learn to run your own business, you’ll never have to worry about having a job or pleasing a boss for the rest of your life.

Author: Brian Tracy
Topics: Business, Businessman, Famous, Inspirational, Job, Joblessness, Jobs, Learn, Learner, Life, Meaningful, own business, Pleasing, Positive, rest of your life

Your success in life isn’t based on your ability to simply change. It is based on your ability to change faster than your competition, customers and business.

Author: Brian Tracy
Topics: Ability, Business, Businessman, Change, Customer, Customers, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Nature of success, Positive, Success, Successful

It’s sentiment and business. Half and half.

Author: Haim Saban
Topics: Business, Famous, Half, Meaningful, Sentiment

This isn’t over. This is just the beginning, any company that chooses to boycott business in Israel is going to look at this case, and once we’re done, they’re going to think twice whether they want to take on Israel or not. Trust me, this is just the beginning.

Author: Haim Saban
Topics: Business, Company, Famous, Meaningful

Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren’t for the goddamned people.

Author: Richard M. Nixon
Topics: Business, Famous, Meaningful, People

If you aren’t having fun, you are doing it wrong. If you feel like getting up in the morning to work on your business is a chore, then it’s time to try something else.

Author: Richard Branson
Topics: Business, Famous, Morning, Something, Work

Business opportunities are like buses; there’s always another one coming.

Author: Richard Branson
Topics: Business, coming, Famous, Opportunities

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

Author: Richard Branson
Topics: Business, Creative, Exercise, Famous, Instincts, Involving

I know I can hold two, maybe even three belts. So I have business to take care of back in and around my weight class.

 

Author: Conor McGregor
Topics: Business, Busy, Care, Careful, Famous, Knowing, Knowing yourself, Knowledge, Life, Meaningful

When I’m in there I’m just in my zone. What people think about when they’re looking at me, that’s their business. If there is a bit of that, I am fine with it, each to his own.

 

Author: Conor McGregor
Topics: Business, Busy, Own identity, Own Life

I’m not a businessman, I’m a business, man.

Author: G-Eazy
Topics: Business, Businessman, Famous, Man

What’s the difference between you and the man sitting beside you? It’s one percent. In my business, only one percent makes it. If everyone had the same dream, only 1 will make it from this crowd. Who will be that one?

Author: Ray Lewis
Topics: Business, Crowd, Difference, Dream, Famous, Percent, Sitting

My business is to prevent the future.

Author: Ray Bradbury
Topics: Business, Famous, Feelings, Meaningful

I knew the shirt-swapping business in general was getting out of hand when opponents would ask me for my shirt while we were still mid-match. Those are the wrong priorities.

Author: Paul Scholes
Topics: Business, Famous, Opponents, Priorities, Shirt-Swapping

Mind your business. Take care of what you came here for. Find the ‘I’ first and you may afterwards speak of other matters.

Author: Ramana Maharshi
Topics: Business, Famous, Matters, Speak

The Power that created you has created the world as well. If it can take care of you, it can similarily take care of the world also. If God has created the world, it is His business to look after it, not yours.

Author: Ramana Maharshi
Topics: Business, Created, Power, World

One lesson to any young chef out there: never mix family with business.

Author: Gordon Ramsay
Topics: Advice, Business, Family, Famous, Inspirational, Lesson, Mix

The secret is to make sure the business is running to perfection, with or without me.

Author: Gordon Ramsay
Topics: Business, Famous, Inspirational, Make, Perfection, Running, Secrets

Ultimately, who you choose to be in a relationship with and what you do in your bedroom is your business.

Author: Eminem
Topics: Business, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Relationship

A business enterprise must continue beyond the lifetime of the individual or of the generation to be capable of producing its contributions to economy and to society.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Business, Capable, Economy, Famous, Individuals, Meaningful

When the business grows, the person who founded it is incredibly busy. Rapid growth puts an enormous strain on a business. You outgrow your production facilities. You outgrow your management capabilities.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Business, Capabilities, Famous, Founded, Management, Meaningful

Any existing organization, whether a business, a church, a labor union, or a hospital, goes down fast if it does not innovate. Conversely, any new organization, whether a business, a church, a labor union, or a hospital, collapses if it does not manage. Not to innovate is the single largest reason for the decline of existing organizations. Not to know how to manage is the single largest reason for the failure of new ventures.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Business, Famous, Manage, Meaningful, Organization

If a business is to be considered a continuous process, instead of a series of disjointed stop-and-go events, then the economic universe in which a business operates-and all the major events within it-must have rhyme, rhythm, or reason.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Business, Economic, Famous, Meaningful, Reason

The enterprise can fulfill its human and social functions only if it prospers as a business.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Business, Famous, Functions, Meaningful

I’m a writer. I could not or would not ever run a business. I don’t even have a secretary. And contrary to some of the stereotypes, entrepreneurs are not loners. I am.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Business, entrepreneurs, Famous, Meaningful, Secretary

The subordinate’s job is not to reform or reeducate the boss, not to make him conform to what the business schools or the management book say bosses should be like. It is to enable a particular boss to perform as a unique individual.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Business, Famous, Individuals, Management, Meaningful, Particular, Subordinates

To expose a 4.2 Trillion dollar ripoff of the American people by the stockholders of the 1000 largest corporations over the last one-hundred years will be a tall order of business.

Author: R. Buckminster Fuller
Topics: Business, Famous, Life, Meaningful, People, Years

The new always looks so puny-so unpromising-next to the reality of the massive, ongoing business.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Business, Famous, Massive, Meaningful, Reality

The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.

Author: R. Buckminster Fuller
Topics: Business, Famous, Meaningful, People, School, True

Businesses are not paid to reform customers. They are paid to satisfy customers.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Business, Customers, Famous, Meaningful, Reform, Satisfies

Business exists to supply goods and services to customers and economic surplus to society, rather than to supply jobs to workers and managers or even dividends to shareholders.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Business, Customers, Economic, Famous, Managers, Meaningful, Supply

Free enterprise cannot be justified as being good for business. It can be justified only as being good for society.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Business, Famous, Justified, Meaningful, Society

An employer has no business with a man’s personality. The task is not to change personality, but to enable a person to achieve and to perform.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Business, Famous, Meaningful, Personality

Managers are the basic and scarcest resource of any business enterprise.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Business, Famous, Managers, Meaningful, Resources

If you have too many problems, maybe you should get out of business. There is no law that says a company must last forever.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Business, Famous, Forever, Meaningful, Problems

Tomorrow always arrives. It is always different. And even the mightiest company is in trouble if it has not worked on the future. Being surprised by what happens is a risk that even the largest and richest company cannot afford, and even the smallest business need not run.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Business, Company, Famous, Happens, Meaningful, Surprised, Tomorrow

What makes demographics such a rewarding opportunity for the entrepreneur is precisely its neglect by decision makers, whether businessmen, public-service staffs, or governmental policymakers. They still cling to the assumption that demographics do not change – or do not change fast. Indeed, they reject even the plainest evidence of demographic changes.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Business, Entrepreneur, Evidence, Famous, Meaningful, Rewarding

Some of the best business and nonprofit CEOs I’ve worked with over a sixty-five-year consulting career were not stereotypical leaders. They were all over the map in terms of their personalities, attitudes, values, strengths, and weaknesses.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Business, Famous, Leaders, Meaningful, Personalities, Strengths, Weakness

Providing more desirable products, services, and customer experiences is vital to the continued existence of any business. And that is INNOVATION.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Business, Experiences, Famous, Meaningful, Products

In business school classrooms they construct wonderful models of a non- world.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Business, Famous, Meaningful, Wonderful

Football’s a difficult business, and aren’t they prima donnas? But it’s a wonderful game.

Author: Queen Elizabeth II
Topics: Business, Famous, Feelings, Meaningful

There is a point of complexity beyond which a business is no longer manageable.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Business, Famous, Meaningful

A business exists because the consumer is willing to pay you his money. You run a business to satisfy the consumer. That isn’t marketing. That goes way beyond marketing.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Business, Consumers, Famous, Marketing, Meaningful, Money

All great change in business has come from outside the firm, not from inside.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Business, Famous, Inside, Meaningful

To satisfy the customer is the mission and purpose of every business.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Business, Customer, Famous, Meaningful, Mission

Profit is not the purpose of a business, but rather the test of its validity.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Business, Famous, Meaningful, Profits, Purpose

No business can do everything. Even if it has the money, it will never have enough good people. It has to set priorities. The worst thing to do is a little bit of everything. This makes sure that nothing is being accomplished. It is better to pick the wrong priority than none at all.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Accomplished, Business, Enough, Everything, Famous, Meaningful, Nothing, Priorities

Business, that’s easily defined – it’s other people’s money.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Business, Famous, Meaningful, Money

Business purpose and business mission are so rarely given adequate thought is perhaps the most important cause of business frustration and failure.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Business, Famous, Frustration, Meaningful, Mission, Thoughts

Business is society’s change agent.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Business, Famous, Meaningful

A business is not defined by its name, statutes, or articles of incorporation. It is defined by the business mission. Only a clear definition of the mission and purpose of the organization makes possible clear and realistic business objectives.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Business, Famous, Meaningful, Mission, Organization, Purpose

There are just two questions to ask to attain success in business: First, “What business am I in?” Second, “How’s business?

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Business, Famous, Meaningful, Question

Luck never built a business. Prosperity and growth come only to the business that systematically finds and exploits its potential.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Business, Famous, Meaningful, Potential

It’s safe to say headphones is good business.

Author: DJ Khaled
Topics: Business, Famous, Meaningful

Business enterprise is an organ of society. There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Business, Customer, Definition, Famous, Meaningful, Organ, Society

More business decisions occur over lunch and dinner than at any other time, yet no MBA courses are given on the subject.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Business, Dinner, Famous, Meaningful, More, Subjects, Time

Every single social and global issue of our day is a business opportunity in disguise.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Business, Famous, Global, Issues, Meaningful, Social

There are two types of people in the business community: those who produce results and those who give you reasons why they didn’t.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Business, Famous, Meaningful, People, Produce, Reason

Innovation is the specific tool of entrepreneurs, the means by which they exploit change as an opportunity for a different business or a different service.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Business, Change, Famous, Innovation, Meaningful, Service

The single most important thing to remember about any enterprise is that there are no results inside its walls. The result of a business is a satisfied customer.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Business, Customer, Famous, Important, Meaningful, Remember, Results, Satisfied, Single

The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.

Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton
Topics: Business, Division, Famous, Making mistakes, Motivational, Prevent mistakes, Progressive, World

Marketing is the distinguishing, unique function of the business.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Business, Famous, Function, Marketing, Meaningful, Unique, Uniquely

Because its purpose is to create a customer, the business has two and only two functions: Marketing and Innovation. Marketing and Innovation produce results. All the rest are costs.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Business, Customer, Famous, Functions, Innovation, Meaningful, Purpose, Results

The purpose of a business is to create a customer.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Business, Customer, Famous, Meaningful, Purpose

There are only two things in a business that make money – innovation and marketing, everything else is cost.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Business, Cost, Famous, Innovation, Marketing, Meaningful, Money, Things

Marketing is not a function, it is the whole business seen from the customer’s point of view.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Business, Customer, Famous, Function, Marketing, Meaningful, Views

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

Author: Peter Drucker
Topics: Business, Decision, Famous, Made, Meaningful, See, Someone, Successful

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously

Author: Douglas Adams
Topics: Business, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, People

You come to me for advice, but you can’t cope with anything you don’t recognize. Hmmm. So we’ll have to tell you something you already know but make it sound like news, eh Well, business as usual, I suppose.

Author: Douglas Adams
Topics: Advice, Business, Famous, Meaningful, Recognize, Something

If this political business teaches you one thing, it is that you can be as wise as the wise men of this world, and yet you always wander into the next minute like a child into the dark.

Author: Otto von Bismarck
Topics: Business, Dark, Political

No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience

Author: P. T. Barnum
Topics: Business, Experience, Famous, Life, Meaningful, Personal, Succeed, Understands

The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted secures a world wide fame princes well might envy.

Author: P. T. Barnum
Topics: Business, Dignity, Drama, Exhibitionist, Expositions, Famous, Highest, Meaningful, Monkey, Music, Secures

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

Author: Pablo Picasso
Topics: Business, Famous, Imposters, People

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.

 

Author: Charlie Chaplin
Topics: Business, Famous, Grew Up, Humankind, Humble People, Life, Meaningful, Money, Religiously, Self-help section, Simple Gestures, Simplest truth

War is the business of barbarians.

Author: Napoleon Bonaparte
Topics: Business, Famous, War

It’s a woman’s business to get married as soon as possible, and a man’s to keep unmarried as long as he can.

Author: George Bernard Shaw
Topics: Business, Famous, Man, Marriage, Women

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

Author: George Bernard Shaw
Topics: Business, Famous, Inspirational, People, Perseverance

We would have loved the opportunity to take some time to enjoy it, but we had the inevitable checklist and experiments that had to go on. So it was back to business, back to work as soon as we congratulated each other.

Author: Neil Armstrong
Topics: Business, Famous, Inevitable, Love, Meaningful, Opportunity, Time

The business of America is business, and the chief ideal of the American people is idealism

Author: Calvin Coolidge
Topics: Business, Famous, Feelings, Ideal, Idealize, Life, Meaningful

Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do.

Author: Michel de Montaigne
Topics: Business, Chance, Famous, Nature

Nevertheless, the ultimate business of philosophy is to preserve the force of the most elemental words in which Dasein expresses itself, and to keep the common understanding from levelling them off to that unintelligibility which functions in turn as a source of pseudo-problems.

Author: Martin Heidegger
Topics: Business, Famous, Functions, Levelling, Meaningful, Nevertheless, Philosophy, Preserve, Pseudo-Problems., Ultimate, Understanding, Unintelligibility, Words

I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.

Author: Matthew McConaughey
Topics: Business, Family, Famous, Handle, Incredible, Meaningful, People, Support, Wife

There was no getting around the stubborn fact that taking sweetmeats was only “hooking,” while taking bacon and hams and such valuables was plain simple stealing — and there was a command against that in the Bible. So they inwardly resolved that so long as they remained in the business, their piracies should not again be sullied with the crime of stealing.

Author: Mark Twain
Topics: Business, Command, Crimes, Famous, Hooking, Life, Meaningful, Simple, Stealing, Stubborn, Valuables

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.

Author: Mark Twain
Topics: Business, Famous, Ignorant, Inspirational, Meaningful, Wrong

Let your discourse with men of business be short and comprehensive.

Author: George Washington
Topics: Business, Discourse, Men, Short

System in all things is the soul of business. To deliberate maturely, & execute promptly is the way to conduct it to advantage. With me, it has always been a maxim, rather to let my designs appear from my works, than by my expressions.

Author: George Washington
Topics: Business, Economic, Entrepreneur, System

Barney spotted our neighbor’s lawn, where he promptly took care of his business. There I was, the former president of the United States, with a plastic bag on my hand, picking up that which I had been dodging for the past eight years.

Author: George W. Bush
Topics: Business, Care, Famous, Picking up, Plastic bag, President

I would like to flood South Africa with black personages of all sorts of persuasions: writers, educators, businessmen, you name it. If you are black and have any clout at all, I would like to see you go to South Africa and look for yourself and come back and try to use the tools that you have at your command to try and help the brothers down there

Author: Arthur Ashe
Topics: Business, Education, Famous, Life, Look, Meaningful, Person, Try

I was very glad I could afford to say no. With the income from my businesses, I didn’t need money from acting. I never wanted to be in a financially vulnerable position, where I had to take a part I didn’t like.

Author: Arnold Schwarzenegger
Topics: Business, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Money, Position

My business skills have come from being guided by my inner self – my intuition.

Author: Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Business, Guide, Guides, Guiding, Intuition

Never ask a man where’s he’s been. If he’s out on legitimate business, he doesn’t need an alibi. And, girls, if he has been out on illegitimate business, it’s your own fault.

Author: Mae West
Topics: Business, Famous, Fault, Meaningful

I see all art as a complement to telling people’s stories. I’m in the storytelling business. I believe that the humanity that all of us share is the stories of our lives, and everybody has a story. Your story is as important as the next person’s story.

Author: Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Business, People, Person's, Stories, Telling

The work of your life is to discover your purpose and get on with the business of living it out.

Author: Oprah Winfrey
Topics: Business, Discover, Life, Purpose, Work

Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.

Author: Norman Vincent Peale
Topics: Business, Famous, Life, Meaningful, React

It’s not hard to get your way when it’s your way or the highway. People either follow suit or they’re not around. I don’t really like the sound of that, ’cause that sounds like a temper tantrum. I’m just very black and white when it comes to my business. There’s really no gray area.

Author: Nicki Minaj
Topics: Business, Famous, Feelings, Meaningful, People, Tantrum, Temper

My goal in the beginning was to buy my mother a house. Now I realize, okay, if I really focus and become a key player in business, then I can build an empire.

Author: Nicki Minaj
Topics: Business, Famous, Feelings, Meaningful

Female rappers get it the hardest. You have to be a girl, yet you have to be just as hard as the guys. I think some female rappers get scared out of the business before they can make it.

Author: Nicki Minaj
Topics: Ability, Business, Famous, Female Rapper, Hardest, Meaningful

That is neoliberal democracy in a nutshell: trivial debate over minor issues by parties that basically pursue the same pro-business policies regardless of formal differences and campaign debate. Democracy is permissible as long as the control of business is off-limits to popular deliberation or change; i.e. so long as it isn’t democracy.

Author: Noam Chomsky
Topics: Business, Change, Control, Democracy, Difference, Parties, Popular

Let me make this clear, I’m not difficult, I’m just ’bout my business.

Author: Nicki Minaj
Topics: Business, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful

The war against working people should be understood to be a real war…. Specifically in the U.S., which happens to have a highly class-conscious business class…. And they have long seen themselves as fighting a bitter class war, except they don’t want anybody else to know about it.

Author: Noam Chomsky
Topics: Business, Fighting, Real, United States, War

In the US, there is basically one party – the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to these policies. As is most of the population.

Author: Noam Chomsky
Topics: Business, Policies, Population, Republican, Variations

It’s strictly business in this game, still they faking friendly. Don’t let them take advantage of you.

Author: Nipsey Hussle
Topics: Advantages, Business, Famous, Life

I never wanted to alienate my brand for business. I always wanted to keep it authentic and keep it as pure as I could

Author: Nipsey Hussle
Topics: Business, Famous, Feelings, Keep, Life, Meaningful, Pure

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Author: Blaise Pascal
Topics: Business, Entertainment, Intolerable, Passion, Tolerable

Many invest wisely in business matters, but fail to invest time and interest in their most valued possessions: their spouses and children.

Author: Billy Graham
Topics: Business, Children, Interest, Invest, Possessions

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn’t dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.

Author: Bette Davis
Topics: Actors, Business, Enemy, Professional, Regret

Be careful who you tell yo business to.

Author: Lil Durk
Topics: Advice, Business, Careful, Famous

Luck is not a business model

Author: Anthony Bourdain
Topics: Business, Famous, Feelings, Lesson, Life, Luck, Role Model

Withholding anything short of the best service of which one is capable is costly business – a fact which many have learned too late.

Author: Napoleon Hill
Topics: Business, Experiences, Facts, Famous, Inspirational, Life

The modern athlete is an individual corporation. I’m not quite sure it’s very good for sport, or good for team work, or those different things that sport says it’s about. This is about business.

Author: LeBron James
Topics: Business, Experiences, Famous, Individual corporation

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit

Author: Andrew Carnegie
Topics: Business, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Greatness, Inspirational, Learning, Life, Meaningful

I believe in the an eye-for-an-eye business. I’m no cheek turner.

Author: Muhammad Ali
Topics: Business, Famous, Meaningful

My intention was never to transform into a different person. What other people think of me is none of my business.

Author: Lana Del Rey
Topics: Business, Famous, Intention, Transform

It’s very, very rare in this business [moviemaking] where a script lands on your lap ready to go.

Author: Leonardo Di Caprio
Topics: Business, Famous, Inspirational, Moviemaking, Rarely, Script

It’s business! Leave your emotions at the door.

Author: Leonardo Di Caprio
Topics: Business, Doors, Emotion, Famous, Leave

Remember that life is neither pain nor pleasure; it is serious business, to be entered upon with courage and in a spirit of self-sacrifice

Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
Topics: Business, Courage, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Pleasure, Self-Defense, Self-Expression, Self-Improvement, Self-Realization

Are we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

Author: Barack Obama
Topics: Business, Encourage, Famous, Industries, Inspirational, Meaningful, Nation, Positive, Universities

In the absence of sound oversight, responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.

Author: Barack Obama
Topics: Absence, Activities, Business, Environment, Families, Famous, Restriction

That’s what the Affordable Care Act is all about. It’s about filling the gaps in employer-based care so that when we lose a job, or go back to school, or start that new business, we’ll still have coverage.

Author: Barack Obama
Topics: Business, Experiences, Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful, Positive, School

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

Author: Barack Obama
Topics: Business, Experiences, Famous, Helped, Invested, Meaningful, Positive, Successful

The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.

Author: Barack Obama
Topics: Business, Economy, Famous, Meaningful, Positive, Recession

It’s time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.

Author: Barack Obama
Topics: Business, Demand, Famous, Foundation, Government, Meaningful, Positive, Responsibility

I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.

Author: B.F. Skinner
Topics: Business, Famous, Industry, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Positive, Religion

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity

Author: Alexander Pope
Topics: Business, Curiosity, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Like, Meaningful, Nice, Observation, Observe, Person, Personal Experiences, Personality

As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less.

Author: Morgan Freeman
Topics: Business, Grow, Learn

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

Author: Bill Gates
Topics: Business, Creation, Creations, Creative, Effective, Efficiency, Experiences, Famous, Meaningful, Positive

A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything.

Author: Bill Gates
Topics: Business, Experiences, Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful, Positive

A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is, and lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you will go out of business.

Author: Bill Gates
Topics: Business, Experiences, Famous, Good, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Positive, Strategic Thinking, Strategy

The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it’s Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.

Author: Bill Gates
Topics: Business, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Positive, Success, Successful

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires

Author: Bill Gates
Topics: Build, Building, Business, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Positive, Skill, Skilled

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance… you thrive on that

Author: Bill Gates
Topics: Business, Dissatisfaction, Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful, Measure, Positive, Satisfaction, Satisfied

This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

Author: Bill Gates
Topics: Business, Experiences, Famous, Fantasy, Inspirational, Meaningful, Positive, World

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10% to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated.

Author: Bill Gates
Topics: Business, Experiences, Famous, Meaningful, Mental Health, Mental Illness

Business is a money game with few rules and a lot of risk.

Author: Bill Gates
Topics: Business, Experiences, Famous, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Money, Risking, Risks, Rule

Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it’s not going to get the business.

Author: Bill Gates
Topics: Business, Experiences, Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful, Positive

If you are willing to work hard and ask lots of questions, you can learn business pretty fast.

Author: Bill Gates
Topics: Business, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Positive, Question, Work

It’s business! Leave your emotions at the door.

Author: Leonardo Di Caprio
Topics: Business, Emotion, Famous, Inspirational, Leave, Professionalism

The great thing about turning 30 in this business is that you get to perpetuate being young or old as long as we want.

Author: Leonardo Di Caprio
Topics: Business, Famous, Old, Young

God wants to supply your needs from a place you never expected, through people you never knew, in ways you never thought, but first you have to believe that it is possible. Once you understand that His ability to meet your needs is bigger than your job or your business, you will find that your source of life is bigger than the resources that you have been accumulating.

Author: Myles Munroe
Topics: Ability, Business, Expected, God

I can quit boxing now and practically go into any kind of business and I’ll be successful just as well as I was in boxing.

Author: Mike Tyson
Topics: Business, Practically

We’re very focused on making News Feed really good, making our photos experience really good, making messaging really good, and creating great location apps. That’s the nature of a platform business of our scale. Most companies that are relevant to us will have some overlaps in some competitive way.

Author: Mark Zuckerberg
Topics: Business, Companies, Focused, Good, Location, News Feed, Overlaps, Photos, Platform

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand.

Author: Mark Zuckerberg
Topics: Building, Business, Hand, Mission

I never called my work an ‘art.’ It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

Author: Walt Disney
Topics: Business, Entertainment, Experiences, Public, Work

I’m a rapper, but I’m more of a hustler.

Author: Lil Baby
Topics: Ability, Business, Challenge, Determined, Development, Dreams, Entrepreneur, Famous, Focused, Hustler, Improve, Interest, Money, Passionate, Successful

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

Author: W. Edwards Deming
Topics: Business, Famous, Growth, Improvements, Opportunity, Organizations, Outcome, Process, Success, Survival

Improve quality, you automatically improve productivity.

Author: W. Edwards Deming
Topics: Business, Famous, Importance, Improvements, Performance, Philosophy, Position, Powerful, Success, Unique, Value

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

Author: Michelle Obama
Topics: Achievement, Acknowledgement, Business, Care, Challenge, Child, Childhood, Comparision, Connection, Courage, Dedication, Deep, Desire, Development, Education, Effort, Entrepreneur, Express, Family, Feeling, Focus, Goals, Job, Journey, Life, Love, Parenting, Precious, Work

When you’ve worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you. You reach back and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed.

Author: Michelle Obama
Topics: Achievement, Advice, Business, Concept, Connection, Courage, Culture, Education, Facts, Feeling, Freedom, Teacher, Time, Training, Value, Wisdom

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

Author: Walt Disney
Topics: Business, Change, Culture, Encouragement, Entrepreneur, Innovation, Technology, Unique, Visions

I have never been interested in personal gain or profit. This business and this studio have been my entire life.

Author: Walt Disney
Topics: Age, Business, Creative, Entertainment, Famous, Humor, Joy, Life, Passion, Work

When they go low, we go high.

Author: Michelle Obama
Topics: Business, Confidence, Courage, Effort, Faith, Feeling, Hope, Losing, Meaningful, Mind, Profession, Talent, Teamwork, Wisdom

Advertising works most effectively when it’s in line with what people are already trying to do.

Author: Mark Zuckerberg
Topics: Business, Concept, Feelings, Meaningful, Work

Our mission is to connect every person in the world. You don’t do that by having a service people pay for.

Author: Mark Zuckerberg
Topics: Ambition, Business, Concept, Courage, Feeling, Life, Wisdom, Work

I grew up going to the store, seeing the products [of L’Oréal ], seeing the commercials and the ambassadors. I never in a million years thought I’d be associated with them.

Author: Lewis Hamilton
Topics: Business, Change, Commercials, Confession, Experiences, Famous, Happy, Life, Opportunity, Position, Positive, Reality, Success

I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person. It’s a pretty good test.

Author: Mark Zuckerberg
Topics: Business, Chance, Concept, Confidence, Control, Courage, Effort, Emotion, Everything, Express, Feelings, Life, Observation, Opportunity

I feel like the thing we can do is celebrate people doing great work and create more cultural momentum and awareness that this is an important thing in the world. So when the next economic crisis hits and people are talking about where to cut from the budget, science isn’t the thing.

Author: Mark Zuckerberg
Topics: Advice, Ambition, Business, Concept, Control, Effort, Growth, Imagination, Lesson, Life, Manipulation, Meaningful

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

Author: Mark Zuckerberg
Topics: Business, Care, Concept, Confession, Courage, Decision, Desire, Dream, Effort, Faith, Leadership, Learning, Manipulation, Meaningful, Mind, Motivational, Opportunity, Social Work

Figuring out what the next big trend is tells us what we should focus on.

Author: Mark Zuckerberg
Topics: Advice, Ambition, Business, Challenge, Competition, Effort, Everything, Experiences, Express, Facts, Team, Teamwork, Technique, Time, Title, Wealth

We Don’t Build Services to Make Money, We Make Money To Build Services.

Author: Mark Zuckerberg
Topics: Achievement, Ambition, Business, Care, Confession, Cool, Courage, Effort, Feelings, Hard Work, Help, Life, Love

Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission – to make the world more open and connected.

Author: Mark Zuckerberg
Topics: Business, Challenge, Communication, Concept, Confession, Experiences, Express, Facts, Famous, Growth, Internet, Learning, Observation, Passion, Social Media, Successful, Talent, Technique, Trust, Wisdom, World

The thing I really care about is the mission, making the world open.

Author: Mark Zuckerberg
Topics: Ambition, Business, Challenge, Chance, Change, Commitment, Concept, Desire, Dream, Emotion, Express, Feelings, Leadership, Life, Strength, Talent, Team, Wisdom, Work, World

The only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

Author: Mark Zuckerberg
Topics: Advice, Business, Chance, Competition, Concept, Courage, Effort, Feelings, Hard Work, Inspirational, Learning, Lesson, Life, Losing, Loss, Motivational, Reality, Strength, Work

You can’t inspect quality into a product; it has to be built in.

Author: W. Edwards Deming
Topics: Business, Crucial, Facts, Famous, Improvement, Quality

A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

Author: W. C. Fields
Topics: Business, Famous, Feelings, Humor, Life, Meaningful, Mind, Opportunity, Passion, Reason

I’m here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.

Author: Mark Zuckerberg
Topics: Ambition, Business, Courage, Dreams, Faith, Social Work, Strength, Work

I think that people just have this core desire to express who they are. And I think that’s always existed.

Author: Mark Zuckerberg
Topics: Ambition, Business, Challenge, Education, Experiences, Faith, Feelings, Loyal, Mind, Performance

Our mission is to make the world more open and connected.

Author: Mark Zuckerberg
Topics: Business, Communication, Concept, Education, Famous, Goals, Improvement, Inspirational, Internet, Job, Leadership, Learning, Lesson, Life, Social Media, Society, Teamwork, Technology

I belong to the land, and the land belongs to me.

Author: Mahmoud Darwish
Topics: Business, Challenge, Courage, Emotion, Faith, Feelings, Wisdom

I’ve always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.

Author: Michael Jordan
Topics: Ambition, Business, Challenge, Courage, Expectation, Experiences, Fear, Feelings, Goals, Humor, Improvements, Inspirational, Learning, Lesson, Life, Observation, Patience, Performance, Power, Process, Reality, Struggle, Time, Trust, Truth, Work

You can’t improve what you don’t measure.

Author: W. Edwards Deming
Topics: Business, Consistency, Famous, Improvements, Performance, Process, Strength

Understanding variation is the key to success in quality and business.

Author: W. Edwards Deming
Topics: Business, Consistency, Efficiency, Famous, Life, Philosophy, Positive, Success

Talent Wins Games, But Teamwork And Intelligence Win Championship.

Author: Michael Jordan
Topics: Business, Championship, Education, Emotion, Enjoyment, Faith, Family, Feelings, Football, Friendship, Imagination, Mind, Reality, Society, Sports, Time, Work

I’ve never been afraid to fail.

Author: Michael Jordan
Topics: Business, Desire, Education, Emotion, Failure, Faith, Feelings, Learning, Life, Positive, Society, Sports, Trust, Wisdom

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